Plato Partnership: Retail Trading In European Equity Markets - Carole Comerton-Forde And Fatemeh Aramian

Global markets have experienced significant increases in retail trading activity in recent years. The combination of low or no brokerage commissions, easy access to trading applications, and the Covid-19 crisis have increased retail trading significantly. These factors have motivated existing retail traders to trade more and have also encouraged many new retail traders to enter the market. In European markets, there are a variety of trading mechanisms where retail traders can execute their orders. Retail traders can trade in all-to-all trading mechanisms where they interact with all types of traders or on venues operating retail-specific mechanisms.

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